If you haven't played along with us yet this week, there is still time to join in our current challenge: #201 - Sketch. You have until 11:00 p.m. London U.K. time /6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time Wednesday, November 30 to link your card to the challenge post. We'd love to have you join us!

Thursday, November 24, 2016

Hello, and Happy Thanksgiving to our American followers! Here at CAS Colours & Sketches, we are very thankful for everyone who participates in our challenges, and we love seeing what you create every week! We're so glad that you share your artwork with us.

This week we have a very CAS sketch for you. There are a whole lot of possibilities for it!

Feel free to flip or rotate the sketch when creating your card. Remember to keep it clean and simple in design!

Here is some inspiration from the design team to jump start your creativity:

Monday, November 21, 2016

It looked like our challenge participants enjoyed last week's sketch challenge because some great cards were shared for it! Thank you to everyone who played along in it! Seeing what everyone created was a treat for our Design Team!

The Design Team has chosen the
following cards as our Weekly Winners. In order of entry into the
challenge, we congratulate:

We are still celebrating our 200th challenge and fourth birthday! If you haven't played along with us yet this week, there is still time to join in our current Colour Challenge #200.
You have until 11:00 p.m. London U.K. time/6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S.
time Wednesday, November 23, 2016 to link your card to the challenge post and be eligible for one of our birthday gift prizes! We'd love
to have you join us!

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Hooray hooray - we're celebrating our birthday!!! CAS Colours & Sketches has been going strong for four years now, and we have a milestone 200th challenge to mark the occasion! This week it's a colour challenge for you, inspired by the colors in our blog header:

You may use any
companies' products for your cards as long as you use at least three shades of blue. You may also use white, ivory, kraft, or black for
your card base and layers, for image outlines, or for sentiments.
However, in order to be considered for our weekly winners, you must not
use any other colours.

Our awesome design team has created the following cards to inspire you:

It wouldn't be much of a birthday celebration without some presents, right? This time, the gifts are for our challenge participants! Our challenge blog's success is due to those of you who join in our challenges, and we want to show our appreciation by giving away a few prizes. FOUR lucky winners will be chosen at random from our participants in this week's challenge, and each of them will receive one of the following:

Lawn Fawn is a small company from Southern California that specializes
in crafting products (clear stamps, dies, paper & more) that are fun
and lively. They are providing two gift certificates in the amount of $10 each.

Thank you so much to these generous companies! We hope you'll check out their websites and thank them for their support of our challenge blog.

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, we'll be announcing our Weekly Winners for this challenge as usual on Monday, November 28, and we'll announce the Birthday Celebration prizes on Wednesday, November 30.

Monday, November 14, 2016

Thank you to everyone who participated in last week's challenge! The Design Team enjoyed seeing the different ways our fall colours were used. We have chosen the
following cards as our Weekly Winners. In order of entry into the
challenge, we congratulate:

Have you played along in our Sketch Challenge #199 this week? There is still time to share your card if you haven't yet!
You have until 11:00 p.m. London U.K. time/6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S.
time Wednesday, November 16 to link your card to the challenge post. We'd love
to have you join us!

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Hello, and happy Thursday! The weekend is just around the corner... but before we get to that, we have a sketch challenge for you to consider:

That angled layer behind the focal panel adds a fun touch, don't you think? Hint for sizing it: just cut it the same size as the focal panel, and then tilt it. You're welcome to rotate or flip the sketch when creating your card. If you prefer working with squares, you may change your card to a square format. Just make sure we can easily see the main idea of the sketch in your card, and remember to keep your card clean and simple in design.

Our challenge requirements are listed in the Challenge Rules tab. Please read them carefully before linking your card. After you join in our sketch challenge this week, be sure to check in next week as we celebrate our blog's fourth birthday with our 200th challenge! There just might be some surprises in store... you'll have to wait and see! :) Happy crafting!

Challenge End Time: 6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. time/11:00 p.m. London U.K. time Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Monday, November 07, 2016

The CC&S Design Team loved seeing all the fabulous entries into last week's sketch challenge! Thank you to everyone who played along in it! We've chosen the
following cards as our Weekly Winners. In order of entry into the
challenge, we congratulate:

If you haven't played along with us yet this week, there is still time to join in our current Colours Challenge #198.
You have until 11:00 p.m. London U.K. time/6:00 p.m. Eastern U.S.
time Wednesday, November 9 to link your card to the challenge post. We'd love
to have you join us!